The atmospheric stability of the last few days comes to an end. The State Meteorological Agency has activated warnings in several autonomous communities due to the arrival of a winter storm that will shake Spain during the day on Saturday.
An Atlantic front will culminate its journey on the peninsular territory, giving way to a mass of air of polar origin that will cause a sharp drop in temperatures and widespread precipitation in the northern half and the Balearic archipelago.
The areas most affected by the highest rainfall accumulations will be Asturias, Cantabria, the northeast of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, where precipitation could be strong and persistent and accompanied by storms or small hail.
The snow level will start the day low in the northaround eight hundred or a thousand meters, and will experience an additional decrease throughout the day until reaching between eight hundred and a thousand meters in the eastern zone.
They are expected snowfall with significant accumulations in the mountains of the northern half of the peninsula, although they could extend more weakly to other neighboring regions. Frost will appear in mountain areas and nearby high areas, while in the rest of the country the environment will become noticeably colder.
Intense winds and widespread thermal collapse
The wind will blow with an intensity of northwest component in the Peninsula and Balearic Islandswith special incidence in the Ebro valley, where strong winds are expected, and in the Ampurdán and the north of the Balearic Islands, hit by the north wind.
In it Strait and Alboran Very strong gusts from the west are expected, while intervals of intense wind will also be recorded in the Pyrenees and the pre-coastal areas of the Mediterranean arc.
Canary Islandsfor its part, will be under the influence of tradewith strong intervals and very strong gusts, and a tendency to decrease the haze that had affected the islands in previous days, although without ruling out some weak drizzle in the north of the mountainous islands.
The drop in maximum temperatures will be pronounced in large areas of the Peninsula and Balearic Islandsbecoming extraordinary in points of the extreme northeast.
The minimums, however, will go down slightly in the northeast and will experience certain rises in the southwest of the peninsula. In it canary archipelago There will be slight decreases in the maximums and slight rises in the minimums.
This abrupt change in time represents a return to the winter conditions after a period marked by mild temperatures and absence of precipitation in most of the territory.